{"id":290135,"date":"2026-09-20T06:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290135\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T06:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:10:57","slug":"pittsburgh-area-hibachi-restaurant-hit-with-consumer-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290135\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh-area hibachi restaurant hit with consumer alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">MONROEVILLE, Pa. \u2014 The Allegheny County Health Department has issued a consumer alert for a Pittsburgh-area hibachi restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A Food Safety Assessment Report shows that inspectors found five different violations at Saga Hibachi Steakhouse and Sushi Bar in Monroeville Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Inspectors reportedly discovered 10 live cockroaches and eggs under a shelf behind the sushi bar, plus five cockroaches on and behind the kitchen hand sink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">More cockroaches were found dead on a shelf behind sushi carts and in glue boards under hibachi grills, the report says. Dead flies were stuck to traps above food preparation and handling areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Also, the report notes multiple soiled surfaces in the restaurant, including grease build-up around the fryers and food debris on coolers and shelves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Inspectors ordered the restaurant to undergo a deep clean and cockroach treatment, among other requirements, for the consumer alert to be removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONROEVILLE, Pa. \u2014 The Allegheny County Health Department has issued a consumer alert for a Pittsburgh-area hibachi restaurant.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15887,35490,4738,29734,7570,14273,9194,48798,1681,422,120433,14779,6665,1515,29092,53396,84407,7683,10853,120434,51854,51855,26194,13456,18884,1399,14466,23229,23200,120435,73,75,74,58010,6847,15267,44488,15268,18633,976,120436,120437,7765,120438,11335,36832,120439,80540,503,120440,28353,120441],"class_list":["post-290135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action","tag-asian","tag-background","tag-berlin","tag-chef","tag-closeup","tag-cooking","tag-craft","tag-entertainment","tag-fire","tag-flambe","tag-flame","tag-flames","tag-food","tag-fresh","tag-fried","tag-gourmet","tag-hand","tag-hibachi","tag-hibashi","tag-hot","tag-ingredient","tag-japanese","tag-kitchen","tag-knife","tag-man","tag-meal","tag-meat","tag-metal","tag-oriental-food","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-plate","tag-portion","tag-preparation","tag-prepare","tag-professional","tag-recipe","tag-restaurant","tag-roaster","tag-saute","tag-seafood","tag-serving","tag-show","tag-shrimp","tag-spatula","tag-stir-fry","tag-technology","tag-teppanyaki","tag-vegetables","tag-wagyu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}